268 The deceitfulneffe o f Mans heart. ..,._ . ti..+.4.74:4" a::.':. ».w 'c, EffierIESNIM CHAP. XXI. o f forire deceits of the heart in praaiftng. Owwe are come to the fourth and lati head of the firft kinde ofthefelfdeceivingofthe heart,namely,the deceitfulneffe which is in praelif ng. And chit (hews it fell in divers particulars. i. The deceitfulneffe of heart in pra6tifing ap peareth in the fcIZelne4 and uncertaintie thereof ; whereby it commeth to paffe, that we cannot hold on a conftant tenour in any good courfe, without making of many interruptions. Many begin to en- ter into fuch and fuch good wayes of repentance atad reformation, but they Toone grow weary', and break off: Nebuchadnezzar, feeing the excellent prophetical) fpirit of Daniel , in interpreting his drearne,wasfo affe ted,that only Daniels God muff be the true God. And yet this laffed not long. For within a little while after,for all this,his Idoli muff bee worfhipped under paine ofdeath. And after this, the fight of the miracle in the three Childrens delivery, that the fire which was fire to burne the bands wherewith they were tyed, was no fire, fo much as to findge their apparrell ; how did it fur- ther work upon him , and wring from him the ac- knowledgement of the true Cod ? yet for all this, not long after, we may fee him jetting it in his Pa- lace, and as proudly as ever advancing himfelfe above the Lord. Neither is it thus only with the wicked, but in the godly alto themfelves, in the true 4 In pra&i, fing : where I Deceit is, in the hearts i ckelnes in good, Dan. 4.47. Chap.;.re
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